Category: Independent News
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Tough economic times sink Middletown turf fields
Twp. mulls options for $2.5M in bonded funds BY ANDREW DAVISON Staff Writer Middletown Township officials laid to rest any and all plans for the construction of turf fields in Middletown, including West Front Street Park, at the April 5 Township Committee workshop meeting. “There’s no way, in this economic climate when people’s jobs are…
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From Signal Corps to satellites, fort’s role documented
Fort Monmouth archives will follow base to Md. BY ANDREW DAVISON Staff Writer An important chapter in Monmouth County history will come to an end in 2011 when the gates of Fort Monmouth close. Monmouth Park Grandstand blown down 1899 The Department of Defense’s Base Realignment and Closure Commission decided to close Fort Monmouth and…
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Holmdel Board of Ed. passes $56M budget
Board declines to identify 16 positions cut to save $700K BY JACQUELINE HLAVENKA Staff Writer The Holmdel Township Board of Education revised its 2010-11 school budget and addressed the public on March 31. JACQUELINE HLAVENKA HOLMDEL — The township Board of Education unanimously passed a $56 million total budget for the 2010-11 academic year despite…
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Join health-care discussion at Mid’town Library
All points of view welcome at a discussion at the Middletown Library on Friday, April 9, at 2 p.m. Join retired physician Peg Larsen to discuss the ideas raised in the article, “Health Care: Who Knows Best” by Dr. Jerome Groopman, author of the bestselling book “How Doctors Think.” The article discusses health care from…
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Eggs on the run
Children dash off in a quest for brightly colored eggs at the start of an Easter Egg Hunt held at the Matawan Community Center on April 3. LAUREN CASSELBERRY
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Keyport BOE budgets to cap for $18.9M budget
Tax rate to increaseby 2.89 cents per $100 BY JACQUELINE HLAVENKA Staff Writer KEYPORT — The Board of Educationu nanimously approved an $18.9 million budget for the 2010-11 academic year at a public hearing March 31. The district had state aid cut by 14.3percent, or $861,857. Total state aid for2010-11 will be $5,144,185, amounting to26…
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UUC hosts Sunday Morning Dialogs
MIDDLETOWN — The Sunday Morning Dialog program at the Unitarian Universalist Meetinghouse in Lincroft during April will present the following discussions: April 11, “The Threat and Challenge of Religious Fundamentalism.” The Rev. Galen Guengerich, senior minister, All Souls Unitarian Church, New York City. April 18, “The Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen, December 2009: Reality and…
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In your Easter bonnet
Madeline French poses in her Easter bonnet at the Matawan Borough Easter Egg Hunt held at the Matawan Community Center on April 3. CASSELBERRY
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NOTESAround Town
The Shrewsbury Chorale will hold open rehearsals at 7:45 p.m. April 6 at the Unitarian Universalist Congregation Meeting House, 1475 West Front St., Lincroft. The chorale is beginning rehearsals for their June 5 concert, “Go for Baroque — An Evening With Bach and Friends.” Rehearsals are open to all. For more information, call Joy More…
